Certainly you need to be competitive in order to expand and grow your business; there is no doubt about it. I think some recent initiatives have certainly worried a lot of small business owners.
Just this morning we released our monthly business barometer, and one of the most startling things we've been seeing just in the last couple of months is a bit of a reversal in hiring intentions. We're now seeing more planning to lay off than to hire, which is sort of unusual, and it's been two months in a row now across Canada.